Crossing The Plains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDBCCEE FFGGHIHII| What great yoked brutes with briskets low | A |
| With wrinkled necks like buffalo | A |
| With round brown liquid pleading eyes | B |
| That turned so slow and sad to you | C |
| That shone like love's eyes soft with tears | D |
| That seemed to plead and make replies | B |
| The while they bowed their necks and drew | C |
| The creaking load and looked at you | C |
| Their sable briskets swept the ground | E |
| Their cloven feet kept solemn sound | E |
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| Two sullen bullocks led the line | F |
| Their great eyes shining bright like wine | F |
| Two sullen captive kings were they | G |
| That had in time held herds at bay | G |
| And even now they crushed the sod | H |
| With stolid sense of majesty | I |
| And stately stepped and stately trod | H |
| As if 't were something still to be | I |
| Kings even in captivity | I |
Joaquin Miller
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